Date: 5th & 12th November, 2019 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm & 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Venue: 9/F, No. 9, Shing Mun Road, Tsuen Wan, N.T. Trainer: Mrs. Catherine Poon

Course Outline:

Learning how to cultivate therapeutic presence

Exploring our barriers to therapeutic presence

Enhancing empathic attunement

Expanding the spectrum of our acceptance

Strengthening our capacity of containment

Deepening connection with our clients

Selecting therapeutic targets and choosing differentiated

interventions of empathic responses

Developing collaborative therapeutic alliance

Training Format:

Didactic presentations

Experiential exercises

Simulated practice of counseling sessions

Language: Cantonese supplemented with English

Fee: Original Fee︰$2,400

Early bird fee︰$2,200 (On or before 5 October 2019)

2 persons enrolling together︰$2,000/each

Registration: Method 1 Please complete the online application form and send a crossed cheque ( payable to

“香港明愛”) to Caritas Human Empowerment & Achievement Training (HEAT) , 9/F, No.9, Shing Mun Road, Tsuen Wan. Method 2 Please completed online application form to reserve a seat and submit with the crossed cheque within 5 days to the above address. For enquiries, please contact Miss Kean Li or Mr. Simon Wong at 3707 2000 or visit our website: http://www.training.caritas.org.hk

Caritas Human Empowerment & Achievement Training (HEAT) Address: 9/F, Caritas Jockey Club Tsuen Wan Social Service Building,

No.9, Shing Mun Road, Tsuen Wan, N.T. Contact: 3707 2000

E-Mail: fsheattraining@caritassws.org.hk

Introduction:

As a helping profession, maintaining therapeutic

presence is the most fundamental and essential

foundation from which we can scaffold our thera-

peutic work in an effective way. Presence is the

pre-requisite for active listening, empathic attune-

ment and making appropriate empathic respons-

es. Presence can enhance our ability to listen ac-

curately and to make deep connection with our

clients. It is also the base for us to build up a col-

laborative working relationship with our clients.

With a strong bonding with our clients, the drop-

out rate is drastically decreased. Paradoxically,

the more we can be present with our clients, the

lesser risk of burnt-out we would have. This work-

shop is aiming at giving a practical guide to culti-

vating therapeutic presence so that we can build

up a therapeutic relationship efficiently and effec-

tively. This workshop would lay a solid foundation

for further learning on other process-experiential

approaches and emotion-focused interventions.

Mrs. Catherine Poon

B.A., M.S.W., M.BuddhStud. Personal and Marriage Counselor

Registered Social Worker Certified Counselor (HKPCA)

Associate Fellow (HKPCA) Approved Supervisor (HKPCA)

Certified EFT Trainer (Individual Therapy) recognized by the

International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy (isEFT)

Mrs. Catherine Poon has worked with the Hong Kong Catholic

Marriage Advisory Council (HKCMAC) for over 20 years as a

marriage counselor. She specializes her clinical work with cli-

ents of emotional dysregulation, depression, anxiety, and

childhood attachment trauma, and couples with chronic physi-

cal/mental illnesses, addictive behavioral problems and extra-

marital relationship. Apart from clinical practice of individual

and couple counselling, she has supervised social work stu-

dents at different universities and family mediator trainees from

different social service agencies. She maintains a humanistic

person-centered approach in her clinical practice and supervi-

sion.

Mrs. Catherine Poon has been trained in Emotion-Focused

Therapy (EFT) with Professor Leslie Greenberg since 2004.

She has given presentations, provided skills coaching in the

Module Workshops, and conducted monthly supervision

groups in the yearly Training Programs in EFT (Individual &

Couples) jointly organized by the EFT Clinic of York University

and HKCMAC from 2007 to 2017. Over the years, she has led

hundreds of supervision group sessions. She is recognized as

a certified EFT individual trainer since 2016.

She is currently in private practice. She continues to provide

individual and couples therapy, training workshops on EFT

(Individual and Couples), Advanced Empathy and Mindfulness-

informed clinical work, and EFT supervision for local practi-

tioners. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Hong

Kong since 2015, teaching Emotion-Focused Interventions and

Marital Counseling for Master degree students of counseling

and social work.

This workshop aims at:

equipping the skills of daily practice in cultivating therapeutic presence

enhancing the ability of active listening and empathic attunement

learning how to select differentiated interventions of empathic responses

promoting the interest, confidence and skills in working with clients in an experiential way

laying a solid foundation for further learning on process-experiential approach of therapy

Course Code: PT-191102

The Essentials of Emotion-Focused Interventions:

Therapeutic Presence and Empathic Attunement

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